Posts by Islander
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"Life is a resource hog."
Aint it, but.
This is not challenging anyone, or anybody's stance - but there is the matter of common English useage.
"She's blind as a bat." Ur, no: bats generally have good vision, and wonderful echo-location abilities.
"She's *so* shortsighted." Meaning, incapable of realising/envisioning future consequences.
"She's never been able to see the wood for the trees." Well, actually, that's true - up until I was nearly 7, I couldnt see the wood (forest/bush) but I could see the trees...after I'd smacked into them. And I could see details of & in the bark that ordinarily-sighted people couldnt, without magnifying glasses. But - that isnt what that saying means, eh?And multiply these relatively harmless sayings with hundreds of much more hurtful ones...
I go along with -Steve P, I think? (Sorry have lenses out, and scrolling back pages is somewhat daunting at the moment) both about severely intellectually disabled people - e.g.microcephalics
(who are NEVER going to have any kind of human life/independent life) and the pointlessness of keeping people alive - just to keep them alive. Yes, there have been at least 2 fascinating examples of people thought to be braindead - but becoming conscious (in a rather limited fashion)- but they do not apply to unfortunates like Karen or Eulalia. -
Heh!
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OooGiovanni! I so have a little provincial store owner for you to pelt!
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O dear - palpable. Palpably-
Whyever did I agree to serving 5 years on the Indecent Publications Tribunal?
It ruined my tiny wee asexual mindscape... -
Martin, as far as I know, not so - but I will sure as hell be checking tomorrow in the 3 areas my at-risk family live in- and thank you for the pointer.
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"Nobody who's that dependant on medication" - all family members would agree with you -but - there are some wee tartars who will refuse to renew a prescription until it's rollover time...
really good to see a sane presidency again in the USA eh? And asking for input from people at the coalface is sooo not Bush!
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In Maori, ai means copulation....
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Hilary- thanks.
The catch-22 is - as you noted- getting sufficient supplies. For the member of my family who is a transplant donee, and the other members of my family who rely on especial anti-depressants (all the foregoing are *very expensive* meds), you never get a script for more than 4 weeks...and none of our various local bodies have anything to offer(except provisioning oxygen cylinders - which is good!)
I'll check that helpline apopo - and agree with you that access problems could be a huge problem-
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Sacha, I am fascinated by disabilities issues (not least because I am extremely short-sighted, have been since I was born, not that I really thought of that as being disabled, it was just BANG ouch! shit that was a door-): I've never been part of DPA, so I dont know the extent of "client coverage." Does it include, for example, 2 of my family who - if their meds were discontinued- would
a)die painfully within 48 hours
b)lose all mental competence?One of the things I am really concerned about - and I am not attempting any kind of thread-jack, just pointers to relevant websites -
is what do people, who rely on meds to continue everyday living, do in the (likely) event of disasters?O yes. We've checked. We keep running into survivalist sites - foreign to both our lack of any kind of religious belief & political zone.
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aye aye!